Bug#223412: pdflatex fails to create bitmap fonts
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- Subject: Bug#223412: pdflatex fails to create bitmap fonts
- From: frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)
- Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 11:00:25 +0100
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Hi all,
I didn't receive an answer when I forwarded this upstream to
pdftex@tug.org, but after a discussion in the german newsgroup Hartmut
Henkel pointed me to the solution:
pdflatex will create bitmap fonts (i.e. call metafont) if it finds
MKTEXPK = 1
in texmf.cnf. This would mean to apply the following patch that would
fix the bug:
--- tetex-bin-2.0.2/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf.orig Thu Nov 20 10:26:00 2003
+++ tetex-bin-2.0.2/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf Tue Jan 6 10:49:45 2004
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
% variable/config value `FOO', not the `MKTEXPK' value.
%
% MKTEXTEX = 0
-% MKTEXPK = 0
+MKTEXPK = 1
% MKTEXMF = 0
% MKTEXTFM = 0
% MKTEXFMT = 0
I don't think that this would have really bad side effects, since the
system does the same and ends in the same state if the user uses
latex-->dvips-->ps2pdf instead.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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